why is it ?

people do that

Oops, got another warning light up today, on the dashboard of my "new to me" Rover. This one was to inform me that one of my lights wasn't working, that's nice of it isn't it ? Have you any idea how many light bulbs there are on a car ? LOADS !! Head lights, (dip and full beam) side lights (front and rear) indicator lamps (6 in all), stop lights, front fog lights, rear fog lights, reversing lights, and on some cars, lights that make it look like it is always Christmas !!! So began the search. 

Some are easy, others less so, have you ever tried keeping your foot on the break pedal whilst trying to see if the rear break lights are working ? My garage man can do it, (or so he says), eyes in his arse I think, or is it his brains ?

Any way, it turned out to be one of the afore mentioned break lights and I set about replacing it. As it is the law here in France that you have to have a complete set of replacement bulbs in the car I quickly found one and opened the tail gate (trunk for you Americans out there) to fit the new bulb.................... Hang on a minute, nothing is ever that easy is it ? and ........................no it wasn't.

Apparently you have to prise open two plastic (my favourite material !!!!!) flaps to reveal two screws, simply unscrew those and the whole lot falls out, SIMPLES. Well, I think a monkey had got there before me and done just that, but also, snapped off the screws and the plastic they go through, thus rendering the whole operation a total waste of time. What I hadn't noticed, were the wood screws holding the whole thing in place, that the monkey must have found in his wood shed and thought that it might be a good idea if he put them through the plastic and straight into the bodywork. To put the whole thing back, reverse the operation whilst aligning up six lugs, most of which were missing, and those that weren't were too short to see before it was misaligned. Job done, back in the car to see the orange light still on the dashboard.

This time, it turned out to be the reversing light, which just happened to be in the same place as the stop light, it was just as difficult the second time around, but at least the only light that is on now is that ruddy airbag light. Looked it up on the Internet, it's nice to know that I'm not alone, apparently it's because I had the audacity to move the driver's seat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it kind of loosens the cables under the seat  WHAT. !!!

no: 1 why do they build cars like that ?

no: 2 why do people let monkeys loose on repairing their cars ?

no: 3 if it was the guy who had the car before me, give up mate, stick to bananas.